Creator Analytics on Comic Platforms

Adult comic artists get less help here than anywhere else in the creator tools. Fees and payouts are spelled out to the decimal on every platform in our research; statistics are described by a few and ignored by the rest. The descriptions that do exist carry dates, and some are years old. The fee and payout side is covered under creator fees and payout methods, and the rest of our creator guides go platform by platform.

What each platform documents

SubscribeStar's Advanced Analytics

SubscribeStar's adult home page promises Elaborate and comprehensive statistics and analysis tools and links to a post titled "Advanced Analytics" from March 24, 2020. It lists eight charts. The Income chart Reflects total earnings from your Star Profile, without referral income, as daily and cumulative lines. Subscribers Activity shows daily subscriber change, and the post explains how to read it: The blue line can go up and down to negative. If it goes below the horizontal axis at the end, you're losing subscribers.

The remaining charts break income down: Tiers Distribution (amount and number of pledges per tier), Combined Tiers Income, Number of Pledges per Tier, Pledges by Country, One-off Pledges (tips from subscribers and visitors) and Income Sources. The post mentions no data export. For a comic artist, the country chart has a practical use: SubscribeStar's processing fee runs from 3% + $0.30 to 10% + $0.40, and knowing where pledges come from explains where in that range a month lands.

subscribestar.com

itch.io's creator dashboard

itch.io described its dashboard in an update of May 12, 2016: You can see views, downloads, earnings, and more. The aggregated graphs became a stacked bar graph so you can see what items are getting the most views and downloads, the purchases tab got graphs that can display earnings or quantity groups by days or months, and the page includes referring websites. The description is old, and itch.io's creator documentation does not restate it. An artist selling NSFW comics there should also know that adult pages were removed from browse and search on 2025-07-24, so a drop in views from that month has an outside cause.

pixiv's Access Report

pixiv lists an Access Report among the pixiv Premium features, which cost 4.15 USD a month on the web outside Japan. The Premium page describes it in two lines: With the graphs you can easily track data changes of your works. and Finding out where the visitors are coming from also help you reach more fans. It does not list the exact metrics, and data from before the Premium sign-up is not shown. For artists who post free R-18 work on pixiv and sell on FANBOX or Fantia, it is the closest thing to traffic data that pixiv documents.

Numbers that set your pay on reading platforms

On platforms that pay from a pool or from ads, the statistic is the paycheck. GlobalComix splits Gold subscription revenue based on the percentage of pages read; creators see pending income in their income history for 14 days, and the revenue share percentage sits in the Creator Profile settings. Tapas publishes its ad formula: Daily ad revenue = Rounding off (Daily ad impressions *7/1000) in cent, which works out to 7 cents per 1,000 ad impressions. WEBTOON Canvas measures eligibility in subscribers and global monthly page views: 1,000 subscribers and 40,000 views for Viewer Ads, 100,000 views for Reward Ads.

None of the three takes explicit comics, and Tapas closes on 2027-03-31. They are listed for artists with a non-explicit series alongside their adult work.

help.tapas.io

Patreon and the Japanese fan-club platforms

Patreon has a help article on Insights dashboards, but it returned an error to our server, so we do not describe its contents. Ci-en has issued separate sales statements for one-off articles since the January 2026 statement, which at least separates single-article sales from plan income. For pixivFANBOX, Fantia and Skeb we found no help page describing creator statistics. Skeb does publish two platform-wide figures useful for pricing: an average approved amount of 12,000 JPY per artwork, and about 35% of clients from overseas.

What to track yourself

Where a platform shows little, a spreadsheet does the job. Three numbers follow from the fee rules and are worth logging every month (general advice, not a platform feature):

• The share of income bought in Patreon's iOS app, where Apple keeps 30% and funds stay pending for up to 75 days.
• The number of payments under $5, because a fixed $0.30 per payment costs 6% on a $5 pledge before any percentage fee.
• On FANBOX, the date of any switch between R-18 and all-ages, since the fee follows the setting at the moment of each pledge.